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THE GLASS PYRAMID featured on the 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Unique Biographies for Kids !

Thrilled that the esteemed Betsy Bird chose our book!! Here's her review: "Not the first Pei picture book we’ve seen but the first that focuses squarely on the construction of his work on the Louvre. It’s funny, but 2025 was a year when I was paying a lot more attention to how architects were portrayed in media. The film The Brutalist , for example, (out in 2024) was very much of the Genius Misunderstood type of take, which is a dangerous way to grapple with architecture as a

Dec 26, 2025

Outside In and the Inside Out

a story about Arnold Lobel A TRUE TALE WITH A C HERRY O N T OP Viking Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House) pub. 9.23.2025 40 pages Ages 4 - 8 A uthor and illustrator: Emmy Kastner C haracter: Arnold Lobel O verview : " Arnold Lobel was many things: a quiet observer, an avid reader, and the kind of man who kept a gorilla suit in his closet, just in case. Above all else, Arnold was an artist and a storyteller. And he infused pieces of himself in the characters he cre

Dec 4, 2025

The Apprenticeship of Andrew Wyeth

Painting a Family Legacy A TRUE TALE WITH A C HERRY O N T OP Christy Ottaviano Books (Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers) pub. 10.7.2025 40 pages Ages 5 - 9 A uthor and Illustrator: Gene Barretta C haracter: Andrew Wyeth O verview : "Andrew Wyeth is one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century. Before he found his creative voice, he was a boy growing up in an artistic family, spending his time in rural Pennsylvania and Maine. Andy, as he was

Nov 11, 2025